State Bank of India (SBI) reported a 6% rise in standalone net profit at Rs 19,684 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2026, lifted by improving asset quality and lower bad loans.The country’s largest lender had posted a net profit of Rs 18,643 crore in the January–March quarter of the 2024–25 financial year.Despite the…
NEW DELHI: TVK has finally achieved the numbers needed to form the government in Tamil Nadu after days of intense political uncertainty, strategic negotiations and shifting alliance equations in the aftermath of the hung assembly verdict. The breakthrough came after Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist)…
Photo credit: X/@BJP4Keralam NEW DELHI: With the Congress-led LDF securing a majority and on course to form a government in Kerala after more than a decade, attention has now shifted to who will become the state’s next chief minister. Several names have reportedly been discussed, including key Kerala Congress leader V D Satheesan and Congress…
NEW DELHI: Actor-politician Vijay is set to meet Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar for the third time to stake claim to form government, after the May 4 verdict placed his TVK as the single-largest party in the state.From silver-screen superstardom to the edge of Chennai’s Fort St George, Vijay has caused the biggest political…
Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior reacts during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Getafe in Madrid, Spain, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Real Madrid’s turbulent week has reportedly taken another dramatic turn, with Vinícius Júnior now being linked with a possible move away from the club amid growing tension inside…
File photo: The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde (Picture credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Two Indian nationals reportedly infected with hantavirus aboard a cruise ship appear to be isolated cases and there is “no immediate public health threat” to India, director of the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology (NIV) Dr…
Carl Jung (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes remain relevant no matter how much society changes. They live on through generations because they talk about emotions that almost everyone has at some point in their life. One such quote comes from the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung, whose writings about the human mind, personality, emotions, and…
MUMBAI: The prosecution failed to establish that Sohrabuddin Shaikh and his wife Kausar Bi were abducted by the Gujarat and Rajasthan police in the early hours of 23rd November 2005 from a luxury bus from a place near Jahirabad nor has it proved by any circumstantial evidence that 21 police officers were complicit in a…
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow with husband Scott Hutchison British businessman and television personality Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, who became widely known in the UK after he and his former partner were among the country’s “first gay fathers” through surrogacy, has been charged with multiple serious sexual offences alongside his husband Scott Hutchison.Essex Police said 57-year-old Drewitt-Barlow and Hutchison, 32,…
NEW DELHI: DMK MP Kanimozhi has written a letter addressed to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to change the seating arrangements in the Parliament so that they don’t have to sit near the Congress MPs, considering the recent rift after Tamil Nadu poll results.“I write to respectfully request suitable changes in the seating arrangement of…